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People v. Johnson
New York City Criminal Court
560 N.Y.S.2d 238 (1990)
- Written by Alex Ruskell, JD
Facts
A police officer saw Owen Johnson (defendant) telling passerby at the bus station that “you can call the whole world for $8.00.” Johnson then approached a person from Poland, pulled a scrap of paper from his pocket, and started dialing a number into a phone. The officer apprehended Johnson and discovered Johnson had an AT&T credit card number that was used to make 240 calls in the two hours before Johnson was arrested. Johnson was charged with criminal possession of stolen property. At trial, Johnson argued that the number he had was not property within the meaning of the criminal statute and was written on Johnson’s own piece of paper.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Heffernan, J.)
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